Safetypin



Aug. 31, 1937. J NELSON 2,091,561

SAFETYPIN Filed Aug. 29, 1936 IN VEN TOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented Aug. 31, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT GFFECE 4 Claims.

This invention relates to a safety pin construction.

Among the objects of the invention are to provide an improved means for fastening together 5 adjoining pieces of fabric in such a manner that their adjacent edges do not overlap; to provide an exceedingly simple construction of a plurality of safety pins in such a manner that the structure as a whole will be furnished with more than one pointed arm to penetrate and hold in place different portions of fabric or wearing apparel; to provide an improved means for uniting a plurality of safety pins in such a way that they may be readily attached to each other by means 15 of an automatic assembling device; and to provide a multiple safety pin structure wherein the coiled portion of each safety pin will be alined with that of the others thus affording a common suspending loop.

More specifically speaking one object of the in- O vention is to provide an improved means for keeping in place the tab portion of a collar structure, more particularly when the collar forms a permanent portion of a shirt.

Other objects, advantages and features of the 25 invention may hereinafter appear.

Referring to the accompanying drawing which illustrates what is at present deemed to be a preferred embodiment of the invention,

q Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the complete structure, the dotted lines at the sides of the view indicating portions of fabric which the device serves to keep in place, or to attach to each other. A suspending means for the structure is also shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1.

Referring in detail to the drawing, a pair of safety pins are shown, each pin being furnished 40 with the conventional point guard or sheath 5 having the usual guard or ear 6 to direct the pointed portion 1 of the free arm 8 into place.

The stationary arm 9 of each pin is twisted about that of the other, and the coil portion of each pin is intercoiled with that of the other forming a double coil l0 best shown in Fig. 2.

By the arrangement which has been described the stationary wire arm 9 of each individual safety pin is attached to the other at 4 at the K midwidth of the device as a whole, while the free or fabric-engaging arms 8 are directed outwardly, the arms 8 and 9 all occupying substantially the same plane and the wire loops which form the individual safety pins diverging from each other in such a manner that their sheathed portions are farther apart than their coiled portions.

As indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1 two fabric portions H and i2 are shown through which the pointed arms 8 have been passed in order to hold these fabric portions in a juxtaposed relation to each other. In Fig. 1 there is also indicated in dotted lines a suspending hook or loop l3 which passes through the double wire coil Hi to suspend the entire structure together with the fabric portions through which the pointed arms 8 have been projected.

It will be observed from the plan View of the device shown in Fig. 2 that the coiled portion of each individual safety pin comprises in the assembly an outer coil M and an inner coil l5 and that the coil i l of each pin is on the outside of the intercoiled portion It while the other coil it of the same pin is interlocked between the two coils of its fellow pin.

I claim:

1. A safety pin structure comprising two safety pins each having a springable arm and a stationary arm formed of a single wire, their stationary arms being secured together in a contacting relation to each other, and having their end coils in an intercoiled relation to each other.

2. A safety pin structure comprising two safety pins each of which has a stationary wire arm, a springable wire arm and a wire coil uniting said arms, said two safety pins having their coil portions intercoiled with each other, said pins being additionally secured together in such a manner that their end portions which are furnished with point guards diverge from each other.

3. A safety pin structure comprising two safety pins each of which consists of a single wire having a coiled central portion, said portions being concentric to each other, there being in each of said pins a stationary wire arm at one end of the coil and a springable pointed wire arm at the opposite end of said coil, said stationary wires being twisted together and being furnished with guards for the points of said springable arms.

4. The subject matter of claim 3 and, said coiled portion of each pin affording added springiness to the pointed portion thereof.

JAMES M. NELSON. 

